---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition"
description: "Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 795"
citation: "Maryland SB 795 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Beidle", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hershey", "Klausmeier", "Lewis Young", "Mautz", "Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f71e151d-4b69-4e51-83fd-e15cb7ffd836"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0795?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0d454c66832bf14d712d5c961ca64269f9c98a321683d0d51c5dcfe3b5d451b9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 795 (2024) — Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_1049_sb0795t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0795f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0795t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **121–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-26** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1049 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f71e151d-4b69-4e51-83fd-e15cb7ffd836`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).